LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1073, 20 February 1883, Page 3

LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

London, Feb. 17.

Wools arriving after the 15th will be excluded from the next sales ; 296,000 bales are alreadv available.

Sir W. Lawson’s amendment on the address was negatived, as also was another amendment moved by Mr Balfour censuring the Government for not having avoided war in its conduct of the Egyptian affairs. This was negatived on a division by a majority of thirty. Forty thousand persons have been rendered homeless at Cincinnatti by floods. Feb. 18. The Nihilists are reported as being- very active in Geneva, Paris, and London. Sir A, Gordon in a lecture at Edinburgh eul- .i-v: ‘ho loyalty of Takomoba and condemned the attempts of the Missionaries and Government to Anglicise the natives of Tonga. The prisoner Cary deposed to the identity of all the other prisoners, save one, as having been prominent assassins. Mr Forster, Mr Bourke and Earl Oowper were all sentenced to death, and repeated efforts were made to kill Mr Forster, but they miscarried. An unknown person, termed ‘Number One,’ directed the movements of the murder, supplying unlimited funds, raised, it is believed, in America or by the Land League. Cary suggested the use of the amputation knives, and seven of the band waylaid Mr Bourke and Lord F. Cavendish. Kelly, Brady, Delaney, and McOafferty were the actual murderers, and Cary signalled the approach of tho victims. Brady finished off Lord Cavendish, and Kelly slabbed Mr Bourke, Biady afterwards cutting his throat. The weapons used were afterwards destroyed. The prisoners appeared terror stuck at this evidence, and Cary was hissed by the mob. The wool cargoes of the Orontes, Ganges, and Aberdeen ace in time for the sales, but the Kenmore is late.